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«Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.»
Author: Beverley Nichols
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Marriage
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Book of, chapter, chapters, first book, prose, remaining
«Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.»
«Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.»
Author: Donal Henahan
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Autobiography,
Profession and professionals
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advertisements, autobiographer, estate, prose
«If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.»
«Means not, but blunders round about a meaning; And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad»
«I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.»
«It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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efface, effaced, effaces, effacing, prose, readable, struggles, windowpane, windowpanes
«I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in the best order»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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clever, definitions, homely, poets, prose, well-ordered